I missed my usual Sunday night blog post session. Let’s just say there was enough wine around at the time. Mostly been catching up after a busy weekend. Let’s see..

• I finished the Extreme Networks ECDP course. Next is ENA and then most probably ENS in Dubai.
• Worked on the Teraco switch fabric design and commercial agreements (talking turkey).
• Wednesday was an Amobia exco meeting in Stellenbosch.
• Thursday, watched Semi-Pro, Will Farrel is a god.
• Friday to Monday was Mia time. She’s a good partner in crime and a unique alarm clock… luckily she has a weakness for rooibos tea, Melissa’s rusks and Monsters, Inc. In that order.
• Friday afternoon, Mia and I visited Will for his birthday in Somerset West. Mia locked us out of his house for a while.
• Saturday, made Maltabella porridge and watched the rugby. Traveled to Franschoek for the Bastille day festival. Had lunch with WSE, Cath and Parri.
• Visited Haute Cabriere for sundowners, home of Pierre Jourdan. Awesome views. Great cap classique.
• Sunday, gym, swim, snack at Knead, ice cream at Sinn’s, Deer Park play area where we ran into Dorje. Mia says she wants her own blog.
• Had lunch at Greens with Jonathan and Lynnae.
• Sunday night we had a braai with friends in Llandudno. I suck at Scrabble.
• It’s been a challenging few weeks, but I’m lucky to have very supportive friends.
• Cape Town is a nice place to raise children.

On with the week.

Joe’s extended birthday news..

• Monday, we had a pre-GeekDinner to look at the next venue and a burger at Royale.
• The next GeekDinner will be on 31 July. See you there.
• Tuesday, had a burger at Da Vinci’s in Kloof Street with WSE. Try the Milan burger. Very yummy. Finally sorted out my trust documents now that I have closure.
• More Extreme ECDP training.
• Had my hair cut at Pink 23, 39 Roeland street, by a friend: Bianca, +27 21 461 1067, try it.
• Thursday morning, time with Mia. Shopping for new swimwear and shoes.
• Thursday afternoon, drove to Montagu with Anton. Had a nice dinner followed by a morning in the local hot springs.
• Friday was my 31st birthday. Had a fun party at Asoka. Thank you to everybody who showed up, phoned or emailed. Thanks for the gifts.
• Rainy Saturday, just chilling and reading.
• Discovered Cath’s blog.
• Sunday, brunch at Lazari’s in Gardens, watched Marie Antoinette, dinner in Stellenbosch.
• Dropped Anton off at the airport and then watched You only live twice.

I have not been blogging much lately. Go figure. Weekly news summary as usual..

• I entered Amobia in a venture fund competition. Should have some feedback by mid July.
• Added a Crackbook page for Amobia.
• Watched Zeitgeist, 40 Year Old Virgin and Oceans Eleven.
• We had a Frogfoot company photo taken for 2008. Pics at the usual place.
• Completed the Extreme Networks ECSP training course.
• Made a fact sheet for WAPA.
• Walked up Lions Head three times this week. Helps me think.
• I’m getting back into a swimming routine. Helps me think.
• Friday, made a new friend by apologising to an old friend. We avoided each other for the last 3 years.
• Removed two ~nasty blog posts.
• I brewed up Joe’s famous thai green curry on Friday evening. Nice to cook.
• Visited Wellington on Saturday afternoon.
• Anton is in ZA for a week. Had a nice dinner with friends at the Fishmonger followed by drinks at the Akker.
• Saturday and Sunday was Mia time. We watched Babe today. Sweet movie.

Bullet point update for the week..

• I’ve slowly been working through a mountain of email after last weeks holiday. If you are waiting for a reply, well.. I’ll get to it.
• I was contacted about joining the Extreme Networks Customer Advisory Council. It’s a forum for “innovative and creative user of Extreme Networks solutions”. Maybe it’s because I keep bugging them about the features I want.. often strange requests only people crazy enough to build wireless networks in Africa would think about.
• I just returned from a Frogfoot staff cocktail party at Jaqui Daya. In celebration of the store’s 1st birthday we were invited for a few snacks and drinks.. it’s just around the corner from our office so we’re very good customers.
• So, with a bit of social lubricant (vino) I finally updated and published a page that’s been in draft form for a while. I guess it’s still a draft but now it’s out there in the wild. It’s a page about Frogfoot’s company values.
• I also added a hotspot overview page, to give everybody the bigger picture of how the Frogfoot Hotspot business model works.
• Attended my first “powerplate” class on Wednesday. I guess it’s my fad of the month.
• Note to self: don’t do any back exercises the day before looking after a 2yr old.

Keep out of trouble kids, but have a fun weekend.

Been a while since I wrote something here. I guess I’ve been busy. Let’s see, a few random updates…

• Had a nice weekend in Pringle Bay with friends, got some sun.
• Visited the Endeavor crew on the 28th floor of the LG building a while ago. Nice views. Still no real scope to work together it seems.
• Been working on the web interface for the next Blio CPE software, which will allow Amobia to build outdoor (integrated) hotspots.
• Had an Amobia meeting last night and looked at some financial stats. Amobia grew its revenue by about 110% over its last financial year 2006 vs 2007. Amobia is about 2.25 years old now. Well on it’s way to being a successful business when it gets to the magic 3 years figure.
• We’ve spend a good number of hours planning, designing and developing the new Frogfoot website. Looking pretty awesome. It’s built on Wordpress. We should have all the themes and styles done by tomorrow, which leaves me to write and update some content. Should launch early next week… but a few beers after work on Friday are in order. The new Frogfoot blog design is even nicer than the Swimgeek blog.. I’m going to have to think up something new for my blog design (-:
• There’s been a few interesting developments on the VANS license conversion front. More sports to follow soon. We have a WAPA committe meeting tomorrow afternoon.
• There has been good interest in the Blio IP PBX lately. A number of website queries and interest from PBX solution companies. There are a few demo units out in the field and we’ve had some good feedback. Working on improving the documentation and making it easier to get going after buying a PBX.
• Frogfoot’s hotspot sales are starting to pick up. We’ve done some work on an easy sign-up process for hotspot operators and we have a new all singing and dancing hotspot software revision due within the next month. It will have much better integration with our accounting system and better automation of things like debit order forms and profit sharing payment notices.
• Amobia’s touch rugby team has been on a winning streak, they are top of the log at the moment.
• Frogfoot is now an Extreme Networks partner. We’re thinking of cabling up Teraco with purple cat6 cable.
• Attended a very interesting meeting about IPP’s (independent power providers) this week. Had a bit of a feeling of deja vu.. seems the electricity market in this country is currently where the telecoms market was 10+ yrs ago.
• Looks like I’ll be in Wellington this weekend and maybe visit the Stellenbosch Fresh Goods Market again.

Catch you on the flipside, crazy kids.

Some new toys arrived. Pics are here.

Extreme Networks BD8k core switch and two Summit series access switches. This is most probably the same models we’ll use for the Teraco switch fabric.

Also added some pics of setting up the Blio PBX demo kit.